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Apple Aperture

Post production tool for photographers.

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I tried, but

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Contributed by: greglawhorn Wednesday, June 14 2006 @ 06:44 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

I really, really like Apple products. I'm not exactly in love with Apple stuff, but we're very good friends. That's why I brought home a 2.16g MacBook Pro a few weeks ago.

And that's also why I'm deeply disappointed in Aperture. It holds out a lot of promise, but on my MacBook - which is a FAST machine, with 256 megs of video RAM - Aperture is SLOW.

Importing, for instance, is painfully slow. While Aperture was struggling to import the thousands of images I have on DVD, iPhoto, of all things, was zipping through like a hot knife through tofu.

That's ok; I figured that I would only import that many images one time. It's using the program that matters. Well, even in regular use Aperture just can't keep up with iPhoto. Now, iPhoto can't do many of the things that Aperture can do, of course. But I'm not asking A. to do them all the time.

I can't imagine what Aperture would have been like on my old TiBook!

I'm hoping that Apple will get its act together, and figure out how to keep the power in Aperture without it being glacial.

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I tried, but - eboretz

Ram is the key to running aperture efficiently. I also have a 2.16 Gig Macbook pro with 2 gigs of ram. Aperture screams on it. Upgrade your ram and you will see a vast improvement

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Wednesday, June 21 2006 @ 03:53 PM PDT

I tried, but - eboretz

Ram is the key to running aperture efficiently. I also have a 2.16 Gig Macbook pro with 2 gigs of ram. Aperture screams on it. Upgrade your ram and you will see a vast improvement

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Wednesday, June 21 2006 @ 03:53 PM PDT

I tried, but - greglawhorn

Actually, I have 2 gigs of RAM. Happy it works for you, though.

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Wednesday, June 21 2006 @ 10:19 PM PDT

I tried, but - greglawhorn

Actually, I have 2 gigs of RAM. Happy it works for you, though.

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Wednesday, June 21 2006 @ 10:20 PM PDT

I tried, but - greglawhorn

Actually, I have 2 gigs of RAM. Happy it works for you, though.

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Wednesday, June 21 2006 @ 10:21 PM PDT

I tried, but - greglawhorn

Actually, I have 2 gigs of RAM. Happy it works for you, though.

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Wednesday, June 21 2006 @ 10:26 PM PDT

I tried, but - rossul

Well, actually 256 of RAM is nothing. Most if not all is taken by OSX and nothing left for apps. You ought to upgrade up to 1 or 2 GB.

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Thursday, June 22 2006 @ 07:06 AM PDT

I tried, but - greglawhorn

Here's the system profiler specs for my MBP

Machine Name: MacBook Pro 15"
Machine Model: MacBookPro1,1
CPU Type: Intel Core Duo
Number Of Cores: 2
CPU Speed: 2.16 GHz
L2 Cache (shared): 2 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP11.0055.B03

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Thursday, June 22 2006 @ 07:55 AM PDT

I tried, but - a153957

"with 256 megs of<b><u> video</u></b> RAM"

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Tuesday, July 18 2006 @ 01:54 AM PDT

I tried, but - a153957

"with 256 megs of video RAM"

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Tuesday, July 18 2006 @ 01:57 AM PDT

I tried, but - a153957

"with 256 megs of video RAM"

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Tuesday, July 18 2006 @ 02:00 AM PDT

I tried, but - eboretz

Try getting more ram. I have the same macbook pro with 2 gigs of ram, and aperture runs perfectly. Ram is the key.

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Friday, September 29 2006 @ 04:07 PM PDT

I tried, but - gyhrs

On my "old G5 2x2GHz" with 2.5 GHz RAM Aperture allready in 1.1 is very fast, but it was a biiigggggg dissapointment that the upgrade I downloaded, did't install ???
Installationprogram didn't recognize that Aperture was installed ! Aughhhh